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Four members of the Armenian Kachotyan family, who were killed in their home on July 9, were laid to rest Wednesday at the cemetery of Vachiani village in the Akhalkalaki Region of the Samtskhe-Javakheti Province of Georgia.

The Armenian News-NEWS.am reporter informed that Armenia’s Ambassador to Georgia Yuri Vardanyan, representatives of the local governments, and people from several towns and villages in Javakheti attended the burial.

As reported earlier, four members of an Armenian family—the mother, Ofelya, 37, and the three children: Sergey, 5, Asya, 18, and Armine, 13, Kachotyan—were found dead in their home in the aforesaid village in Javakheti, by their neighbors, on July 10.

Javakheti is a predominantly-Armenian-populated part of Georgia’s southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province.

According to preliminary information, the assailant had killed the mother and her daughters with a blunt instrument, and strangled the boy to death. 

The table and chairs of the house were lying on the floor, and the house was sooty with smoke.

The father of the family, Vaghinak Kachotyan, is a migrant worker in Russia.

A newly opened Turkish-Georgian state border runs along the said primarily-Armenian-populated village.

Nodar Akopov, 24, a resident of the same village, is accused of the murder of the Kachotyan family. He confessed to police to having committed the murders, and presented the respective details.

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